TILIACEAE 313 
fibrous, entire or 2- to 4-lobed. (In honor of Dr. N. Grew, an English 
physician and botanist.) 
Species 70 or more, tropics of the Old World, about 20 in the Philippines, 
one in our area. 
1. G. multiflora Juss. Danglin (Tag.). 
A shrub or small tree 3 to 8 m high, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 
oblong-ovate to elliptic-ovate, 4 to 14 cm long, 2.5 to 5 em wide, often 
somewhat inequilateral, base usually rounded, 3-nerved, apex acuminate, 
margins crenate-serrate. Inflorescence of small, axillary, solitary umbels, 
the peduncles longer then the petioles, each with from 2 to 7 flowers. 
Buds globose or ovoid. Flowers about 1 cm in diameter, greenish-yellow. 
Sepals pubescent outside, much longer than the petals. Fruit obovoid, 
about 6 mm long. 
In thickets, San Juan, Guadalupe, etc., fl. Sept.—Dec.; throughout the 
Philippines. India to Africa, and Malaya. 
2. COLUMBIA Persoon 
Trees or shrubs with simple, usually oblique leaves. Flowers in terminal 
panicles. Sepals 5, distinct. Petals 5, glandular at the base. Stamens 
many, free, inserted on a raised torus. Ovary 3- to 5-celled, the cells 2- 
to 4-ovuled; style subulate, entire. Capsule rounded to obovoid, 3- to 5- 
winged, ultimately splitting into 3 to 5 1-seeded, indehiscent cocci. (In 
honor of Christopher Columbus, discoverer of America.) 
Species about 18, tropical Asia and Malaya, about 10 in the Philippines. 
1. C. serratifolia (Cav.) Pers. Anilao (Tag.). 
A shrub or small tree 3 to 10 m high, the branches and inflorescence 
hirsute. Leaves oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 10 to 20 cm 
long, base very oblique, margins coarsely or finely serrate, the upper sur- 
face becoming nearly glabrous, the lower surface pale, rather densely 
pubescent and hirsute. Panicles terminal and in the upper axils, many- 
flowered, 10 to 30 cm long. Flowers clustered, 6 to 7 mm long. Sepals 
pubescent. Petals pink and yellowish or reddish. Capsules about 1 cm 
long, broader than long, 3- or 4-winged. (FI. Filip. pl. 272, C. anilao.) 
In thickets near San Francisco del Monte, fl. May—July; widely distrib- 
uted in the Philippines. Endemic. 
3. MUNTINGIA Linnaeus * 
A stellate-pubescent tree with alternate, toothed, inequilateral, distichous 
leaves. Flowers white, solitary or in pairs, their pedicels inserted just 
above the leaf-axils. Sepals 5, lanceolate, valvate. Petals entire, obovate. 
Stamens indefinite, free, inserted on an annular subperigynous disk. Ovary 
5- to 7-celled, ovoid, surrounded by a dense ring of white hairs. Stigma sub- 
sessile, thick, sulcate-lobed. Fruit a fleshy, globose, many-seeded berry. (In 
honor of A..Munting, a Dutch botanist.) 
A single species in Mexico and South America. 
1. M. cALABURA L. Datiles, Ratiles (Tag., corruption of Sp. datil—date.) 
A tree 5 to 10 m high, viscid-pubescent with stellate hairs, the branches 
spreading. Leaves alternate, distichous, oblong-ovate to broadly oblong- 
lanceolate, 8 to 13 cm long, acuminate, toothed, base inequilateral, one side 
* Placed in the Elacocarpaceae in the “Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien.” 
